Kojima Press Industry Co., Ltd.

Toshi Saeki

Akihiko Kozuka

Masanori Kawai

Takahisa Morita

Norikazu Morita

Kazunori Noba

Haruo Morita

A lock apparatus for locking a glove box that is rotatably coupled to an instrument panel of a vehicle. The lock apparatus includes an operating portion with a push-type knob, a pair of lock portions, and a transmitting portion with a transmitting member. The operating portion is located closer to a driver seat than a right and left center of the glove box in a right and left direction of a vehicle. The operating portion is coupled to the instrument panel between the instrument panel and the glove box. Each of the lock portions is located at each of right and left end portions of the glove box. The transmitting portion transmits a motion of the operating portion to each of the pair of lock portions using tension and/or compression of the transmitting member.

Lock apparatus for a glove box of a vehicle

An apparatus for producing a battery case which has a tubular shape with a closed end and which houses an electricity-generating element, the apparatus including: a die assembly including a blanking die, a drawing die, a redrawing die and an ironing die which have respective die holes having mutually different sizes and which are immovably and coaxially arranged in series in the order of the sizes of the die holes; a first punch, a second punch and a third punch which are disposed coaxially with respect to the die assembly such that the first through third punches can be inserted into the corresponding die holes of the respective dies; and a moving mechanism which permits the first through third punches to be inserted into the corresponding die holes.

Apparatus and method of producing battery case

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